Avenging Pearl Harbor: The Saga of America's Battleships in the Pacific War Lloyd Keith Warren
Avenging Pearl Harbor: The Saga of America's Battleships in the Pacific War Lloyd Keith Warren It was a miracle three years in the making, a testimony to American fortitude and ingenuity--and perhaps…
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Avenging Pearl Harbor: The Saga of America's Battleships in the Pacific War Lloyd Keith Warren
It was a miracle three years in the making, a testimony to American fortitude and ingenuity--and perhaps the key to why the United States won a war that after Pearl Harbor seemed hopeless. Historian Keith Warren Lloyd brings his gift for injecting life and personalities and heretofore untold stories of the men and women involved--members of what became known as The Greatest Generation--whose heroism and sacrifice brought about the miraculous new life of a sleeping military force that was reeling and on its knees. Impeccably researched, Avenging Pearl Harbor is colorfully written, personal, chilling, visceral.
On the night of 24 October 1944, a force of two battleships, one heavy cruiser and four destroyers from the Imperial Japanese Navy steamed into Surigao Strait in the Philippines. It is a story has never before been told in such detail and with such vibrancy. Their objective: to